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for Loving Literature, a groundbreaking examination of literary affections. Coming at a moment when the field of
literary studies is in crisis, in danger of losing its legitimacy, this account of our emotional commitment to books is
especially important. For Deidre Shauna Lynch, “the love of literature” is far more than a simple cliché.
Instead, she contends, our affair with books is complicated: “It is as if those on the side of love of literature
had forgotten what literary texts themselves say about love’s edginess and complexities.” And it is these
complexities that she sets out to explore.
  
  The professionalisation that came with the late 19th-century
establishment of English literature as an academic field brought with it an unusual duality. Attempting to reconcile
amateurs and literary scholars, book clubs and university courses, emotions and training, hearts and minds, Lynch
describes a confusion of boundaries between personalisation and professionalisation that is perhaps unique to literary
studies. Scholars of literature are a different breed of cat: “The English professor’s affective life is
supposed to slop over on to her job.”
  
  She traces such attachments to books back to the formation of
private life in the late 18th and 19th centuries. Samuel Johnson was especially important in establishing the canon with
his multivolume Lives of the Poets (a work that might more accurately, to my mind, be titled “Lives of the Male
Poets”).
  
  If 18th-century literary histories were generally considered public services that conveyed
cultural capital, literary heritage and birthright, anthologists and essayists such as Charles Lamb and Thomas De
Quincey encouraged personal response to the ready-made canon they had inherited. Quite a bit of space is also devoted to
Thomas Warton’s antiquarian books and esoterica. Considering the rare book as cult object led in the 19th century
to mad obsession, or “the bibliomania”.
  
  Lynch is perhaps at her most interesting when she
analyses the novel’s long form, which privileges it as a friend and companion. This special type of affection
requires devotion and inspires love that is “uncalculated…so habitual, that it runs on automatic pilot, with
no effort of the will required”.
  
  Her focus on particular types of fiction, such as Romantic gothic
novels written by women, allow Lynch to address our current concerns about the death of literature by comparing reading
to mourning. If such works make mourners of their readers, they also make legacies of their texts. Indeed, Lynch
considers the literary canon as having the authority of the deceased. The process of canon formation in the 18th and
19th centuries resulted in the representation of literature as “a cultural space of posthumousness”. For
Lynch, the ultimate barrier, the barrier of death, between dead poets and living readers, is “essential to the
personalization that transmutes admiration into love”.
  
  In her bid to redefine literary experience,
Lynch takes up aesthetic and domestic history, intimate life, emotions, sensibility, reading (and rereading) habits,
reception, publishing, poetics, canonicity, criticism, psychology, family, sexuality and genre. Tarted up as argument,
“love of literature” is really nothing so much as a frame on which to hang ideas.
  
  Densely but
beautifully (sometimes lyrically) written and relatively free of jargon, Loving Literature’s sentences are
chock-full of concepts that need to be unpacked. It’s a slow read, to be approached with pencil in hand. But
beware – you may find yourself underlining the whole book. At every point, the author’s own scholarly
acumen and love of literature are clearly on display. She demonstrates, even as she reasons, that professional literary
scholars can dispassionately and critically analyse the texts they love and intimately experience.
  
  Lynch
continually raises provocative questions that have no easy answers. The takeaway? Sometimes foreplay is as good as it
gets.
  
  Times Higher Education
  "A groundbreaking examination of literary affections. Coming at a
moment when the field of literary studies is in crisis, in danger of losing its legitimacy, this account of our
emotional commitment to books is especially important. . . . At every point, the author’s own scholarly acumen
and love of literature are clearly on display. She demonstrates, even as she reasons, that professional literary
scholars can dispassionately and critically analyse the texts they love and intimately experience.”
  
 
Leah Price, Harvard University
  “Loving Literature combines dry wit with polemical rigor. More
fundamentally, the book enacts what it describes: Lynch’s critical distance from the love of literature does not
prevent her from conveying her own infectious engagement with the texts that she analyzes. One comes away feeling not
that she has debunked the literary-critical enterprise, but that she has reinvigorated it.”
  
  Adela
Pinch, University of Michigan
  “A major work by a major scholar. This is truly an eagerly awaited book.
Needless to say, Lynch writes not as some kind of skeptical outsider, but as a ‘lover of literature’ who
seeks to understand why we professionally take all this so personally. The book will be much read and talked about
across all fields of literary scholarship and beyond: a book about the love of literature is sure to attract the
attention of a broad band of literature lovers both inside and outside the academy.”
  
  Ian Duncan,
University of California, Berkeley
  “Loving Literature is a revelatory achievement, a major work that
showcases cultural history at its very finest, combining high scholarship with democratic inclusiveness, infectious
enthusiasm, and clarity of style. Lynch argues that the emergence of ‘literature’ in its modern sense in
the Romantic period involved a structural transformation of the relation between work and reader, in which literature
became the domain of a new affective intimacy at the core of private life. Written with verve and eloquence, Loving
Literature is at every point alive, imaginatively attuned to its theme. Here is a critic whose own love of literature,
far from softening her critical acumen, endows it with sympathetic force.”
  
  Rita Felski, University
of Virginia
  “Where does the love of literature come from? And why is it so often unfairly maligned or
absurdly idealized? In this fascinating account, Lynch delves into the history of literary appreciation and affection.
Professional rigor, it turns out, is not so very far removed from amateur love; analysis and attachment are closely
intertwined. At a moment when literary studies is reflecting anew on its defining purpose, this is a very timely and
important book.” 						

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